July 2009
6 posts
There’s No App for That →
Paraphrased responses from Apple’s rep:
I can’t discuss other apps with you.
I can only say that yours duplicates features of the iPhone and was causing confusion in the user community. It’s against our policy.
I can’t say - only that yours is not complying with our policy.
I can’t go into granular detail.
I can’t say.
I can’t help you with that
I understand your...
“You almost have to admire AT&T’s consistency. They are consistently finding...”
– from Can AT&T Handle The iPhone?
The problem here is not that AT&T is unable to cope with the iPhone, but that there isn’t a US carrier who can. I honestly don’t believe that a Verizon iPhone would be any better, and they are the only other major player in the market. You just...
WatchStewart / Colbert on universal healthcare
from Thursday, 23 July
WatchYou know, I was just griping how Ubnuntu tries yet fails, but this is just spectacular.
Also, it took me like 20 minutes to find, download and install a program with which to record this video.
EDIT: then I had to transcode the OGG file into MP4 so that Vimeo would transcode it correctly, and re-post to Tumblr since the Vimeo button to replace my video file required Flash 10, which not only...
“Q: Will we get a discount at Amazon?
No, because we are planning on continuing...”
– Tony Hsieh’s letter to all Zappos employees, regarding the Amazon acquisition of Zappos (although he “would prefer the headline ‘Zappos and Amazon sitting in a tree…’)”